"Where's the equipment?"    Source: Russ Geary - HSFOOTBALLWEB

I've got a good one, just got to find the newspaper clipping from 1986. But this is a true story and here it is: I was a Jr. High School coach at the time, out scouting our potential playoff opponent while this happened. After the game we were scouting was over, we raced back to our stadium to find out who won the game. I can still picture Varsity Assistant coach Ed Ghetian sitting in the football office when we got back saying: "You'll never believe what happened here tonight..."

An end of the regular season game for the conference championship between South Allegheny and Wilkinsburg took a wild and unusual turn....before the game ever started! The game was scheduled to be played on a Friday night, in Glassport, at South Allegheny's home field. The South Allegheny team was there. The Wilkinsburg team was there. The stadium was packed. But the Wilkinsburg players had no equipment! Seems their equipment truck driver got a flat tire on the way to the game. After a delay in getting the tire fixed, he decided to drive it back to Wilkinsburg, park it, and go home...without telling anyone! So there was a packed stadium, one team dressed and on the field, the referees ready for the game....and the other team standing in street clothes on their sideline. The WPIAL, the governing body for Western PA high school sports, ended up cancelling the game and had it rescheduled for the next night. South Allegheny ended up winning the championship the next night, physically pounding the "now-equipped" Wilkinsburg team.